Author Archive for: Rachel Verkade

About Rachel Verkade

Rachel Verkade has been writing since before she could write... one of her earliest memories is putting together a crude picture book about a runaway circus elephant. Now, with one degree in English literature and one in wildlife biology, she hopes to make this lifelong calling an actual profession. Currently, she's living in England with her husband, three cats, a parrot, and various reptiles. She writes for the website "Nerds Raging" under the name Here be Dragons (or the Drunken Dragon Lady), and has been previously published in On the Premises, The Future Fire, The Escapist, Under the Bed, 365 Tomorrows, 69 Flavors of Paranoia, Liminalities, and Romance Magazine.

Entries by Rachel Verkade

Lunch that day was cubes of honeyed melon lightly dusted with sugar. Father placed each cube, one at a time, on Ayako’s tongue, the sweetness filling her mouth with light. When the last piece of melon was gone, Ayako made her way back to the library. She walked the winding corridors, sometimes of stone, sometimes of crystal, sometimes of meat that heaved like the sides of a dying animal. She walked the corridors and into the library, and to the marble table that held the Register. It continued to count even if the brief time it had taken to eat,...

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